Sabria Jawhar weighs in on the arrest and sentencing of an elderly Syrian woman in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Jeans gives his take, too.

An ayatollah’s recommendation to grant amnestyto Ashraf Kalhor, sentenced to stoning for adultery and accesory to murder, was rejected by the Judicial Commission for Amnesty and Clemency. May Allah keep her.

others have said this represents progress, because, well, “how amazing that a man would want to marry a rape victim”

to my mind, better to have no man at all than to be forced into it–even at the behest of his forst wife, no less!

Zahra

Can’t help but noticed that the New York Times asked Jehan Sadat, the former first lady of Egypt, who is not a scholar of Islam as far as I know, about the laws prohibiting homosexuality Saudi Arabia. I can’t imagine the same interviewer asking Laura Bush about Canadian immigration law, or some such.